Someone experiences cardiac arrest every 90 seconds in the United States, translating to about 360,000 cardiac arrests per year, says UW Medicine cardiologist Dr.
UW Medicine cardiologist will lead one of four U.S. centers focused on better understanding risk factors of the life-threatening event, and enhancing survival.
(Downloadable video and script) Dr. Graham Nichol discusses study findings showing that predominantly black neighborhoods have a lower rate of bystander resuscitation in incidents of cardiac arrests.
Seattle-King County is one of the best areas in the world to have cardiac arrest. Its survival rate of people who undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, outside of hospitals is 19.9 percent.
